[arch-general] mostly successful install of talkingarchlinux
Two situations are a bit puzzling after installation for me. 1) on booting the system it doesn't matter what is in syslinux.cfg, enter must be hit to turn sound on and finish the login. I've adjusted prompt from 0 to 1 and it had no effect. The second puzzle is a bit more troublesome and has to do with espeak itself. I cannot hit the gray enter key and have espeak talk anymore through the sound card without rebooting the system. For speakup, this is only supposed to be a temporary silence key, not a permanent kill key. Other than those two puzzles, I finally got archlinux up and installed using syslinux. One final piece I'd best add, I put amixer -D hw set Master 92% unmute into /etc/rc.local and it seems to work pretty well there. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net> Adobe fiend for failing to Flash
Your problem with the keypad enter is actually a problem with all Speakup keypad functions in the 3.4 and 3.5 kernels. In all these kernels, pressing any Speakup keypad key causes the kernel to crash and burn, and the system must be hard rebooted in order to get things back up and running. There are two possible solutions to the problem. Either use only laptop layout keys, e.g. capslock enter, or install Linux-lts and edit syslinux.cfg to point to the linux-lts kernel, e.g. vmlinuz-linux-lts and initramfs-linux-lts.img. I'm somewhat at a loss trying to solve the enter to boot problem, but it's possibly not related to the bootloader. It may help to find out just how far your system is actually booting before you press enter to get a talking system. You should be able to navigate the Speakup cursor above the login prompt to find out any prompt that was printed to the screen before you pressed enter to get it talking. Hope this helps. ~Kyle
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Jude DaShiell
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Kyle